A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 1018 Buffalo Town

Panlakazhai,

On the northeast coast of Moyi Island, at the east end of the Green Island Strait, this place was originally the largest tribal village of the Panlaka tribe, with a population of thousands.

The local specialties are copra and abaca, and there are gold mines in the nearby mountains.

The sea breeze blows, and the coconut trees are like corridors.

The village has fallen,

The elders led sixteen families in the village to attack the Tang Dynasty's earthen fortress. Hundreds of young men went out to fight and never came back. They did not expect to return the victorious tribesmen, but instead they waited for the Luzon army who took advantage of the victory and came to kill them.

One round of arrows shot down many tribesmen and defeated their last will to resist. Then their elders and clan leaders were brought to the village to personally persuade them to surrender.

The largest village of the largest tribe on the island was surrendered just like that.

Wu Huaiyu entered the village.

This village is very simple.
It's close to the sea and the river, and the scenery is pretty good.

It's sunny after the rain, the sky is blue and the clouds are white, and the coconut gallery is like a dream.

The native villages are messy and crowded, and their houses are very low and made of local materials, such as coconut trees.

People here farm, fish, and go into the mountains to mine and pan for gold. The village also uses abaca, a kind of tree that looks like a banana tree, to make fishing nets and cables from its fibers, and to weave mats and carpets. Made into linen clothing,
For the natives, the abaca tree is inedible except for the pulp. It is a treasure. This village has even formed a large abaca processing industry.

Abaca fishing nets, abaca cables, abaca carpets, abaca mats, abaca clothes,

There are also boat builders in the village who make local crab boats. This kind of boat is slender and pointed at both ends. The sides of the boat have claws extending out like crabs. This is a coastal area with a river, and the natives mainly travel by this kind of crab boat. ,

The Luzon Army captured hundreds of these simple boats on the Moyibao River.

The largest building in the village is also a thatched house, but it is relatively larger.

The rain and wind blew down, and the grass on the roof was withered and colorless. Compared with the beautiful scenery outside the village, the village was full of dirt, and the dull thatched houses looked like scars.

The largest building in the village has a thatched roof that is unique in that it has wooden floors and the walls are made of neat wooden boards. It is much more upscale than other villagers' houses.

There are about a dozen of these large thatched houses with wooden floors and wooden walls in the village.
The prisoner said that the largest one belonged to the elder, who was also the largest clan leader in the village, and the other dozen or so wooden houses belonged to the other fifteen clan leaders.

There are coconut trees, plantains, abaca and other trees everywhere.
You can still hear the sound of waves in the village, and looking to the south, you can see the tall Alcon Mountain in the distance.

The Panlaka tribe occupies the largest plain area on Moi Island.

But their life is still very simple, even poor. The large plains are not used much. Their agricultural cultivation is very simple. They have been praised for their extensive farming and wide planting but low harvest. They just sow seeds casually, and then basically nothing happens. There is no management to speak of, but it can still be self-sufficient by relying on the large amount of land and the climate with no winter and only three crops a year.

Then fishing, gathering, hunting,
In addition to the hot weather, there are many mosquitoes and malaria on the island, the life of these natives has been this way for generations, isolated from the world, and it has not changed year after year.

But now, everything has changed.

Wu Huaiyu was sitting in the big thatched house that originally belonged to the elders.
The wooden floor is actually made of very hard and beautiful Luzon ebony. This striped black wood has a fine and smooth texture, and is very dense with interlaced textures. It is a good wood for making furniture and musical instruments. It was also later called Luzon ebony. Song ebony.

Using such good wood to make floors and wall panels is really a luxury, or a waste.

These woods are worthless here, and are no different from ordinary woods. Although they have beautiful texture, tight texture, smoothness and fineness, they have no value without buying and selling.

"You can set up a lumber yard here, cut down the ebony, process it, and then transport it to Luzon Port for export."

Regardless of whether it is called Luzon ebony or Luzon ebony, it must still have a lot of commercial value when shipped to Guangzhou and other major ports in the Central Plains. The resources on the island are still for development and utilization, and cannot be kept like the natives of Panlaka here. With such good resources, they live such a primitive life.

"Alang, the Panlaka elders want to see Alang."

In the thatched house, the wooden floor on the second floor is covered with abaca mats, and Wu Huaiyu sits on the ground.

The staff and generals of this expedition were arranged on the left and right,
This was also the place where the elders of Panlaka gathered to discuss important matters. The ebony floor was polished by the slaves of the people in the house. The abaca mat was also hand-woven by the women of the tribe. It was not very exquisite, but it was quite distinctive.

The logistics camp made glutinous rice and delivered it.

The glutinous rice paired with shrimp and fish soup is quite good. The rice is very glutinous and the fish soup is very fresh.

"There is nothing visible," Wu Huaiyu drank seafood soup from a coconut shell bowl. Regarding the Panlaka tribe, Wu Huaiyu had already made a decision before sending troops, and they would be wiped out.

He is not the kind of person who does things over and over again.
Once you have made a decision, you will not change it easily.

Li Keyong waited for the officers to eat and drink soup in big gulps. These warriors ate very quickly. Soldiers pay attention to efficiency, and they must also eat efficiently.

"Slaughter a few small buffaloes to eat tonight," Li Ke finished the meal in three strokes and five divided by two, as if pouring it in, patting his belly, feeling a little unfinished.

"No one should touch those little buffaloes. They are only found on this island. They are precious local products. We will give them away in the future, or sell them to other places as rare and exotic animals. It would be a waste of resources to eat them." ”

"If you want to eat meat, kill the pig at night."

Li Keyong said to the people in the logistics camp in the corner, "Give me another bowl of rice, another bowl of soup, and some more fish and shrimp meat. This stuff is so watery that I always feel like I'm not full or hungry."

After saying that, he turned to Wu Huaiyu and said, "Father, can the pig raised by the locals be called a pig? They are all little piglets. Isn't there a big pig?"

"These black piglets are the local pig breed on the island. They weigh forty or fifty pounds when they grow up. They are smaller in size and are called little black pigs."

It is said that this kind of pig is a domesticated variety of Moyi wild boar, and Moyi wild boar is not big in size. Generally, sows only weigh 40 to 50 kilograms to 670 kilograms, boars weigh 70 to 80 kilograms, and the largest ones weigh only a hundred kilograms. .

"Everything on this island is really small, including these natives." Li Keyong took Tian's bowl and finished it in a few times.

Wu Huaiyu thought that this might be because the island had been closed for too long and the species had degraded, just like the little buffaloes on the island.

The wild boars on this island are also very unique. There is a tuft of dark reddish brown hair on the top of their head. This tuft of hair and their pair of curved tusks make them very distinctive, like a killing horse, showing their unruly nature.

As for the little black pigs raised by the natives, the tufts of hair on the top of their heads turn black, and the long bristles extend from the forehead to the buttocks, but they are much smaller than wild boars, and can only grow up to Forty or fifty pounds. Another big difference from wild boars is that wild boars only have three pairs of breasts, while the little black pigs raised by these natives have four pairs.

"We should transport some pig breeds from the Central Plains," Shi Shouxin suggested. He had been following Wu Huaiyu all these years, and he knew very well that the Wu family had breeding among the many industries in the Central Plains, raising pigs, sheep, cattle, chickens, ducks and geese. The pig-raising industry is still huge.

Chang'an City now slaughters 10,000 pigs every day to meet the huge demand for meat.

Ten thousand pigs a day, ten thousand pigs every day, and this is still pigs for slaughter, and the Wu family is now the largest pig supplier in Chang'an, providing more than 7,000 pigs to Chang'an every day.
In Gyeonggi, the Wu family has many pig farms.

The Wu family has many pig farms and many sows. They breed pigs and sell piglets on a large scale.

In addition to Gyeonggi, the Wu family does this business in many places in the world. It can be said that in the Tang Dynasty, the Wei family can only be regarded as the second oldest in raising pigs.

As for pig breeds, the Wu family has the most. No one in the world has as many pig breeds as the Wu family.

White, black, floral, all kinds.

Wu Huaiyu drank the soup and said with a smile, "It is okay to bring in new breeds of pigs, cattle, sheep, etc., but these local breeds of pigs and cattle on the island must also be preserved.
This little buffalo is the only one in the world.
The little black pigs on the island are also quite unique and should be preserved. "

Li Keyong was puzzled, "What's the use of keeping such a small black pig? Raising it for one year only weighs forty or fifty pounds. It's not cost-effective. What if we use the improved pig breed from our adoptive father's family? That kind of pig can only last one year." A pig that can grow into a big pig weighing three to four hundred pounds will produce so much meat that it will be cost-effective to raise it.”

"The quality of this young black pork is also good, and there is still demand in the market."

Everyone is in the elder's house,
While eating and drinking soup, we chatted about the little buffalo and the little black pig, and naturally we talked about the natives. In the eyes of everyone, those short, dark and skinny natives were no different from little buffaloes and little black pigs.

Several officials, who were literati, were somewhat benevolent for a while and asked Wu Huaiyu to be lenient to the defeated and surrendered Panlaka tribe.
As long as they surrender, are willing to organize households and people, pay taxes and serve.

But Wu Huaiyu refused.

In the future, if other natives surrender after being defeated, they can consider setting up households, paying taxes and serving the people, and then stay.

But not this time.

Luzon also had conflicts with some natives before.
But this is the first time for a full-scale war. Countless people are watching.

Of course Wu Huaiyu wanted to take this opportunity to show Lu Song's toughness and strength. This first ax must be struck without any delay.

As for saying that with one blow, tens of thousands of the Panlaka tribe were wiped out and countless people became slaves, there is nothing much to say about this.
Such is the age,

Now is the era of the jungle, the law of the dark forest, and survival is the first need.

Surrender can lead to integration, but confrontation can lead to no sympathy.

"Send all the elders of the thirty-three big houses in Panlaka and the chiefs of a total of three hundred and twenty clans to Luzon City and temporarily imprison them. Find translators and ask them to explain clearly the history of their respective clans."

"The rest of the young men from Panlaka were taken to the gold and copper mines in Moyi Mountain. They were told that if they performed well and worked for ten years and got enough work points, they could be transferred to work on the farm. It will be easier there.

After working on the farm for ten years and accumulating enough work points, you can obtain customer status and become a tenant of Guan Tian in Luzon."

"Men and women of the Panlaka tribe who are over fifty do not have to go to the mines and are assigned to work on other farms."

"And women aged fifteen to thirty are sent to work in the newly built Weaving Bureau in Luzon. If they perform well, they will be arranged to have blind dates with new immigrants and be assigned to them as concubines."

Wu Huaiyu reminded that these Panlaka women could only be concubines. They were slaves in the Weaving Bureau. After becoming concubines for new immigrants, they could be released as good deeds, but they could still only be concubines.

"Men and women under the age of fifteen are sent to Luzon for indoctrination and work-study. When they learn Chinese, they are assigned to various workshops, etc."

For these indigenous children and teenagers, Wu Huaiyu was generous and did not send them to the mines. Instead, he had some plans to transform and educate them, allowing them to go to towns to learn Han culture, accept Han ideas, learn some craftsmanship, and then enter the Various workshops, etc., contribute to the construction of Luzon.

They are still young. Wu Huaiyu feels that after taking them away from the ethnic group and accepting a new ideological civilization, they will be different after such a long time, not to mention becoming Tang people immediately.

At least there is a high probability that it can be used by the Luzon martial arts family.

They can integrate into the mainstream of Luzon, and even their descendants in the future, through intermarriage between Han and Yi and Chinese education, can become new Luzon people.

"Tomorrow, Sanlang and I will return to Luzon. Panlaka will leave some people behind and continue to clear out the remnants,"

Wu Huaiyu looked through the window at the village outside.
"This place can be renovated and a township built to become the center of this area,"

Panlaka village is close to the sea and river, with convenient water and land transportation. There is a large plain around it, and there are gold mines nearby. It has great development potential, especially because it is surrounded by many villages of the Panlaka people and there are many fields. ,
Immigrants are sent here directly, and there is no need to reclaim wasteland or build houses. When they come directly, they have land to live in, fields to cultivate, and even ready-made docks.

There is Moyi Port in the west and Panlaka in the east.

"Alang, please give this place a new name." One of the staff said.

Wu Huaiyu originally wanted to use the name Pan Laka directly, but this name was too barbaric, so his staff suggested new names one after another.
They all contain the words Huai, Fu, Sui, Jing, Zhen, Ning, Ping, An, etc. For example, the word Huai, Huai Lai, Huai Yuan, Huai An, Huai Hua Huairou. These place names all reflect the Central Plains dynasty’s treatment of the frontier barbarians. Attitude,

After conquering the border barbarians, he ruled these places with a gentle and appeasement policy.

It is precisely because of the tradition of past dynasties that the place names with these words in Chinese place names have a high rate of duplication. Wu Huaiyu was too lazy to bother.

"The island's specialty is baby buffalo. How about calling this place Buffalo Township from now on, and this village from now on called Buffalo Port."

In the future, this place will definitely develop into the second largest port town on Moyi Island. No one expected that Wu Gong would give it such a name.

Buffalo Township, Buffalo Harbor.

Wouldn't it be better to call them Fushun, Suihua, Jingbian, Changping, Zhennan, Ningyuan, etc.?
Buffalo Harbor is so vulgar, full of country farm atmosphere.

Li Ke gave the first high-five and said, "Buffalo Port, this is a good name. You can remember it as soon as you hear it. It's not easy to be confused."

All the staff also reacted and cheered,

No matter how vulgar Buffalo Harbor is, it was named after Mr. Wu personally, and it is indeed the only place where scorpions poop.

(End of this chapter)